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12/22/08 3:57 PM

#397 RE: DragonBits #396

PALM SPRINGS, FL – Continuing a terrible holiday season, Bernard Madoff was forced to celebrate Hannukah with an unlikely Jew – The Alien!

After details of an investment scam came to light in the last two weeks, Madoff’s own children disowned him and have ceased communication since the reports first emerged.

Madoff was hoping the spirit of the season would warm the icy tension that had developed within his family, but relations had not improved in time for the first night of Hanukkah.

“It’s terrible not being with your children during the holidays,” Madoff told reporters. “No one will talk to me, no one wanted to share my latkes or drink my Manischevitz. That’s why I was so delighted to get a call from the Alien. He knows what its like to be scrutinized and probed.”

Questions have surrounded the existential and religious beliefs of the Alien for years. Although the Alien has never admitted to having a Bar Mitzvah, it is now believed that he practices Judasim.

While the Alien may celebrate the minor holiday Hanukkah, not everyone is convinced that the Alien is a practicing Jew.

“Who knows what this actually signifies,” Rabbi Eli Weisberg of Temple Beth Shalom Israel said. “Plenty of Jews celebrate Christmas not as a religious holiday but as an excuse to get together with friends and family and be joyful.”

“And I know plenty of shiksas and goyum who stick a Menorah on top of the tree, light a candle or two then eat gelt for a week and open more presents. It’s a little meshuga if you ask me, but what do I know? I’m an alter kocker.”

There are reportedly photos of the Alien comforting a weeping Madoff after he lost chocolate coins during a dreidle game, but Weekly World News has yet to verify this.
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teapeebubbles

12/22/08 3:58 PM

#398 RE: DragonBits #396

Feds confine Bernie Madoff to his $7 million penthouse until trial.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/12/20/2008-12-20_feds_confine_bernie_madoff_to_his_7_mill.html


Ex-Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff arrested on fraud charge

Updated Thursday, December 11th 2008, 11:57 PM

Bernard Madoff

The manager of an exclusive hedge fund for the mega-rich and a pioneering force on Wall Street was arrested Thursday and charged with running a $50billion Ponzi scheme in what may rank among the biggest frauds ever.

Bernard Madoff, 70, a former president of the Nasdaq who helped regulators make the rules in the early days of electronic trading, managed a fund for a handful of billionaires.

Now nearly all the money is gone, according to investigators.

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/11/2008-12-11_exnasdaq_chairman_bernard_madoff_arreste.html